Peru
Peru is a country in South America that’s home to a section of Amazon rainforest and Machu Picchu, an ancient Incan city set high in the Andes mountains.
Lesson Plans
This hands-on and interactive presentation introduces students to the ancient Inca and their textile traditions, includes Spanish vocabulary exposure, and finishes with a creative class activity where students get to design their own textile patterns.
Related Content Areas: World Geography & Cultures / Visual Art / Spanish
Grade Levels: 3-5
Standards:
3rd Grade World Geography and Cultures: 3.32 Use timelines to summarize the history of a region.
5th Grade Visual Art: 4.1 Explore the relationship of art from different cultures, time, and places.
5th Grade Visual Art: 4.2 Examine and demonstrate how culture, history, and art influence each other.
Modern Languages Elementary K-5: 2.2 Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of the culture studied.
Objectives:
- Students will be able to recognize how culture influenced art in the Inca civilization and describe textile colors and patterns in Spanish.
- Students will be able to connect textile styles to elements of Inca religion, worldview, and state control.
- Students will be able to make connections between these ancient textiles and students’ personal lives.
This hands-on and interactive presentation introduces students to the fine-line ceramic style of the Moche, a Pre-Columbian culture of 2000 years ago from the northern coast of Peru in South America. The presentation also includes Spanish vocabulary exposure, and finishes with a creative class activity where students get to design costumes to act out scenes depicted in the ceramic designs.
Related Content Areas: World Geography & Cultures / Visual Art / Spanish
Grade Levels: 3-5
Standards:
3rd Grade World Geography and Cultures: 3.32 Use timelines to summarize the history of a region.
5th Grade Visual Art: 4.1 Explore the relationship of art from different cultures, time, and places.
5th Grade Visual Art: 4.2 Examine and demonstrate how culture, history, and art influence each other.
Modern Languages Elementary K-5: 2.2 Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of the culture studied.
Objectives:
- Students will be able to recognize and identify Moche fine line ceramics from northern Peru and relate imagery on the ceramics to Moche culture, traditions, and funerary practices.
- Students will be able to describe the ceramic designs in Spanish.
- Students will be able to make connections between presented material to their lives.
CLACX is committed to supporting cultural awareness among K-12 students. Culture boxes consist of materials and curriculum from different countries to create a stimulating, hands-on experience for students.
Grade Levels: K–4, 5–8, 9–12
Email clacx@vanderbilt.edu for lesson plan.